... THE HUNT BREAKFAST AT MR. AND MRS. PETER PIPER'S. A CHRISTMAS HUNTING SKETCH. By Eincii Mason. IT was ten o'clock on a fine morning early in December, and Mr. Peter Piper, of Pepperpot Priory, seated in what was known as the Oak Parlour, was partaking with his wife and family of that social meal commonly called breakfast. Where is the man who is not familiar with the name of Peter Piper? We ...

... HEATHERTHORP. A SPORTING STO RY. By Byron Webber. CHAPTER III, SHOWS HOW MATTHEW CRISP PLAYED THE PART OF A TOUT, ADEQUATELY ACCOUNTS FOR DR. SUTTON'S SUDDEN DEPAR TURE FROM HEATHERTHORP, AND STEALS SUNDRY LEAVES FROM THE EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE OF MISS WILSON. It goes against the grain to own that one's hero is mean nevertheless, a stem regard for truth demands such an admission. Even the ...

... Y FRENCH. MY dear young friends, said Mr. Stiggins, all taps is vanities! Well, said Sam, I des-say they may be, sir; but rich is your particular wanity? Vich wanity do you like the flavour on best, sir? Though the mutabilities of fasliion which have acclimatised Pell Ell, Portaire, and Dog's Nose, under the title of Nez-de-CMen in France have brought about their revenges in the ...

... LOVE'S VICTORY. A DRAMATIC STORY Adapted expressly for this paper. By Howard Paul. CHAPTER VH. COUNT SAINT-ROCH had hardly closed the door when M. Noriac rushed out of the bed-room where he had been concealed. Was I not right? he exclaimed. But Paul did not hear him. He had sunk into a chair, hiding his face in his hands. Noriac looked at him with an air of pity, then suddenly, as if ...

... BY MRS. POWER O'DONOOHUE, Author of Ladies on Horseback die. (i Commenced January 29th. No. 368.) CHAPTER XXX. Continued WILL you play, Del.? asked Will Scott, when the- uproarious applause had subsided and the waiters had left the room. No, said Delvayne, I am not inclined. As he spoke he filled his glass from the punch-howl, and a' so that of Lord Simpleby, who had managed to empty two ...

... HEATHERTHORP. A SPORTING STORY. By Byron Webber. CHAPTER XI. Continued Still plotting, but of another description. Timothy Wilson, Esq., who had retired to his study to read (as was his custom after a Strictly family dinner), leaving the girls to amuse themselves as best they might, was sound asleep; a condition which betrayed a contented mind, and a singular capacity for speedily mastering ...

... . IT would not be easy to say where Tom Cannon is seen to the greatest advantage. When putting the finishing touches to one of his horses, when it has been saddled for a race, a horse about which he has told his friends that it is well in itself and certain to run well-- Tom Cannon is far too sound a judge of racing to talk about certainties and being sure to win-- the master of Danebury, ...

... A DISTINGUISHED EOEEIGNEE. By Finch Mason. CHAPTER I. JUST as a rainbow, after a heavy thunderstorm, changes the whole appearance of the landscape from grave to gay; the heavy, inky-looking clouds that a moment since were casting their sombre mantle over nature's beauties being pushed rudely aside by the glorious sunshine that brightens up the whole country as if by magic, making the fish to ...

... UNFAIRLY WON. BY MRS. POWER O'DONOOHUE, Author of Ladies on Horseback due. [Commenced January 29 th. No. 368.) CHAPTER XXIX. [Continued.) Ivy was pacing her chamber one wintry day, and marvelling whether De Morin would indeed depart without bidding her one word of adieu, when a knock at the door startled her, and the page, Danny- re-established and improved-- announced that Captain Delvayne ...

... . A FEMALE Mephistopheles, for reasons which are perhaps not altogether complimentary to women, is a personage more easily conceived than a female Faust; and, as a matter of fact, from the graceful fiend who tempted St. Antony (described with much detail by Gustave Flaubert, in his account of the trials to which that holy man was subjected), to the Mephistopheles of Heine's ballet, and the ...

... . IT was somewhere about the year 1887 I first became en gaged to the subject of this story-- subject I must call him, and must find him an alias, for he still lives, and, man-like, objects to these tales. Don't however think that I am going to exaggerate. I will tell you the truth as to the matter in hand. George, we will call him George (for I had a lover of that name), is one of the most ...

... . WHETHER Macmillan has cause to complain of the treatment it has received from Mr. Hawthorne depends upon whether readers of the magazine miss Fortune's Fool or whether they are pleased to find the space that unfinished novel used to occupy better employed. The story has, however, broken off in the middle through the publishers' inability to obtain the remaining chapters from the author. ...